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The law of drones
President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, John O. Brennan, was about as cagey as they come last week at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Asked right off the bat by the committee chairwoman,...
Tags: John O. Brennan, Al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, CBS Corp., Dianne Feinstein
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Obama taps Hagel for Pentagon, Brennan for CIA
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, two potentially controversial picks for his second-term...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, This Week (tv program), Republican Party, Leon Panetta, Barack Obama
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Obama chooses Hagel for defense secretary, Brennan to head CIA
Associated PressDespite Republican misgivings, President Barack Obama announced Monday he will nominate former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary, calling him “the leader our troops deserve.” He also chose White House counterterrorism...Tags: Leon Panetta, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, John Kerry
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Mikulski poised to become Senate committee chair
Behind-the-scenes jostling for committee chairmanships in the U.S. Senate has left Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski poised to take over the Senate Intelligence Committee — a move experts said Tuesday could bolster the role cybersecurity plays in...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Republican Party, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Parties and Movements
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Homeland Season 2, Episode 11 recap
With one episode remaining in the second season of “Homeland,” several plotlines reached their conclusions, while others blew wide open. Episode 11 killed off two of the series’ most obviously troublesome characters: Abu Nazir and the...
Tags: Morena Baccarin, Bipolar Disorder, Police Investigations, FBI, Central Intelligence Agency
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Afghan intelligence chief wounded in attack
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.KABUL, Afghanistan -- The chief of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency was wounded Thursday afternoon in an attack at a spy agency guest house in the capital, government officials said. Asadullah Khalid, director of the National Directorate of...Tags: Kabul (Afghanistan), Emergency Incidents, Bombings, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government
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Better spies, not more
The Defense Intelligence Agency is planning to dramatically expand the ranks of its covert "collectors" — a.k.a. case officers or, more popularly, spies. It has 500 or so and hopes to double that number. There is nothing inherently wrong with this...
Tags: Defense Intelligence Agency, U.S. Department of Defense, Iran's Nuclear Program, Julia Child, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Two women who brought down a traitor
Jeanne Vertefeuille and Sandra Grimes could be George Smiley's people. They were recruited on their college campuses by the Central Intelligence Agency during the height of the Cold War. Jeanne wanted travel and adventure. Sandy didn't know much about...
Tags: Police Investigations, FBI, Annapolis, Russia, United States Naval Academy
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Jessica Chastain gets her character in 'Zero Dark Thirty'
As the overstressed beating heart of "Zero Dark Thirty," a CIA analyst named Maya who relentlessly chases after the hated phantom that was Osama bin Laden, Jessica Chastain is at times steely, at times shattered, potty-mouthed but somehow girlish,...
Tags: Leon Panetta, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Entertainment Events, Central Intelligence Agency, Entertainment
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'Homeland' Season 2, Episode 9 recap
Who is Dar Adal? Just as Abu Nazir has begun shift from specter to physical character, "Homeland" has brought in a new, mysterious overlord to lurk in the shadows. This time it's in the form of a powerful intelligence official revealed to be secretly...
Tags: Police Investigations, Homeland (tv program), Central Intelligence Agency, Politics
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'Bourne Legacy': Franchise weakens as it branches off ★★
"The Bourne Identity." "The Bourne Supremacy.""The Bourne Ultimatum."And now, "The Pointless, Confused and Then, For the Last Half-Hour, Exciting Bourne Sequel, After a Fashion," more commonly known as"The Bourne Legacy." It's not really a prequel....
Tags: Movies, The Bourne Ultimatum (movie), The Bourne Legacy (movie), Rachel Weisz, Stacy Keach
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Afghan President Karzai blames 'foreign spy agencies' for insider shootings
World NowA potentially serious rift has emerged in the way the Afghan government and the U.S. administration view “insider shootings” -- cases of Afghan police and soldiers turning their guns on Western troops. President Hamid Karzai held an urgent...
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